Moneyball The Art of Winning an Unfair Game

I remember reading Moneyball that was 2003 when the book came out. The great Michael Lewis. The great Michael Lewis. I've read all his books.

Moneyball was unbelievable. Oh, yeah, of course. Like, Moneyball was such a trip because like my... I remember my dad was a fan of that book and he's like, how are they going to make this?

Michael Lewis.

Michael Lewis, the culture changing author of Moneyball, The Big Short and countless other great books about his new book on the people that make the government work

Dykes are also wrote down a quote from the book Moneyball in which fellow fellow former Met Billy being said that Dykes had no concept of failure

It's like the Jonah Hill money ball meme. The money ball find really tall guys to play on your basketball team.

Foushee should see the movie Moneyball, we reference often, where the Brad Pitt character in the movie says to the guy, if that guy's a good hitter, why doesn't he hit good? The Moneyball theory is gold. I think everything you need to know about life is in the Kenny Rogers song, The Gambler and in Moneyball.

the book is the book is very good too was recommended by a secret service friend of mine steve way before the movie was made because it's a book about thinking outside the box how we tend to lose the forest for the trees and business a lot you know i i read another book was it how i lost a million dollars it's a great book and the running thesis behind the whole book is there's a thousand paths to success in business some people will tell you invest in gold some people say don't invest in gold some people say invest in stocks some people say don't invest in stocks invest in bonds some people say bitcoin some people say don't invest in bitcoin there's a thousand ways people have gotten rich right some that contradict each other meaning there must be multiple pathways to success but i could tell you ladies and gentlemen there is one path to failure that is never knowing as kennie roger said you got to do in the fold of my voice is terrible joker probably sing it better he's an actual musician i'm not but they never know when a cost is sunk business athletes coaches general managers they never they cannot a sunk cost meaning your investment in a stock in a player it's it's done it's over the player is a failure the stock keeps losing money people can't get out they keep saying tomorrow we're going to turn it around tomorrow he's going to get out of the slump tomorrow his attitude is going to change the stock's going to fix itself tomorrow and you know what ladies and gentlemen it never does i shouldn't say never it rarely does there's a million past the success but there's one path to failure take advice from kenny rogers no one to walk away no one to run so there's a line in the movie money ball and again it's kind of loosely based on a true story about how this general manager came in and threw out the whole scouting model for baseball and said we're going to do this saber metrics thing well i mean he had mark molder barry zeno and tim hudson probably the one of the best 123 pitching rotations and modern baseball history it means a little exaggerated but we get at the point he says at one point the brad pit playing billy b in the general manager surrounded by a bunch of scouts who want to you know use the old thinking inside the box model and invest in what billy thinks is a sunk cost old school scouting and they're thinking about players and one of the old school scouts says the brad pit the billy bean character you know he's a good player got a nice swing he's a good hitter and billy bean looks back and says he's a good hitter then why does he hit good and they all look like pretty good question he's a good hitter why does he hit good right

the Michael Lewis book and the way that the film kind of elevated its status among kind of mainstream non-hardcore sports fans.

But Michael Lewis, that's the guy who wrote Moneyball and The Big Short and Liar's Poker, has been thinking a lot about it.

But Michael Lewis, that's the guy who wrote Moneyball and The Big Short and Liar's Poker, has been thinking a lot about it.

But Michael Lewis, that's the guy who wrote Moneyball and The Big Short and Liar's Poker, has been thinking a lot about it.

But Michael Lewis, that's the guy who wrote Moneyball and The Big Short and Liar's Poker, has been thinking a lot about it.

He knows who I am because he's read Moneyball.

Books like Moneyball, which was about the way the Oakland A's managed to function on a shoestring budget in Major League Baseball and the book was in my mind really about the way the market for baseball players misvalued those players.

The problem we're trying to solve is that there are rich teams and there are poor teams. Then there's 50 feet of crap and then there's us.

I was astonished that anybody bothered to make Moneyball much less The Big Short and so my experience with the movie business is peculiar because what seems to happen is I write books that are ever harder to turn into movies and they work ever harder to make them into movies.

The heart of the story was that markets can really pretty dramatically misvalue and misjudge people. And if a baseball player could be misjudged, who couldn't be kind of thing?

If you need some Michael Lewis before then, you might want to listen to an episode we made with him last year on the 20th anniversary of his book Moneyball.

If you need some Michael Lewis before then, you might want to listen to an episode we made with him last year on the 20th anniversary of his book Moneyball.

We called it Did Michael Lewis Just Get Lucky With Moneyball?

I wrote this book because I fell in love with a story the story concerned a small group of undervalued Professional baseball players and executives many of whom had been rejected as unfit for the big leagues

This book is called money ball.

The statistics enabled you to find your way past all sorts of site-based scouting prejudices

One moral of the money ball story was to not trust your gut so much the other moral was that history is one long battle between Traditionalists and new thinkers

If gross miscalculations of a person's value could occur on a baseball field before a live audience of 30,000 and a television audience of millions more What did that say about the measurement of performance in other lines of work?

The book is Moneyball, the art of winning an unfair game.

Even if you don't know the book or the movie, even if you didn't know there was a book or a movie, you probably know the word, Moneyball.

That was the title of a book published in 2003 by Michael Lewis. The subtitle is The Art of Winning an Unfair Game.

It tells the story of a baseball executive, the Oakland A's general manager Billy Bean, who realized he couldn't compete with the big budgets of the bigger teams.

So when it came to assembling his roster, he put his money on smaller bets, smarter bets, statistically sound bets.

Next year will mark the 20th anniversary of Lewis's book. So we are going to interview him for an episode of our Freakonomics Radio Book Club.

Books like Moneyball. Which was about the way the Oakland A's managed to function on a shoestring budget in Major League Baseball.

The problem we're trying to solve is that there are rich teams and there are poor teams. Then there's 50 feet of crap and then there's us.

The heart of the story was that markets can really pretty dramatically misvalue and misjudge people. And if a baseball player could be misjudged, who couldn't be? Kind of thing.

And they said very sweetly that this is a good story Michael Lewis has written, but he doesn't seem to realize that these two guys named Danny Kahneman and Amos Tversky, psychologists, have explored the biases in the human mind that lead people to make these sorts of misjudgments.

What? Moneyball? Yeah. You're a big moneyball guy. I'm a moneyball guy.

Well, obviously she's just telling us Moneyball? Yeah. You're a big moneyball guy.

And so even before Moneyball, right? And Moneyball to me, look, as sports analytics nerd guy, Moneyball, of course, is what I also think of. Billy Bean, the GM, starting the Saber Metric analytic revolution, all that stuff.

But I feel like the entire time with the A's, underrated in the concept of Moneyball was the word money. Like it was math, but it was also born out of what? It was born out of a fundamental cheapness that the A's had in terms of how they operate.

Moneyball aged so poorly, man.

I read Moneyball myself but you've known

Bill Polian once said something to Michael Lewis, author of Moneyball, about why a play worked or didn't.

All of which is to say that even before Moneyball, right? And Moneyball to me, look, as a sports analytics nerd guy, Moneyball, of course, Billy Bean, the GM, starting the Saber Metric analytic revolution, all that stuff.

Money ball. Hey, geez, money ball, man.

At the start of the Moneyball movement, when they started hiring young people who were good at math and modern, Paul DePodesta left the Oakland A's and wanted to run a baseball team.

The Moneyball strategy is finding the value and trying to win with that.

There's no such thing as Moneyball outside of baseball. Baseball doesn't have a salary cap, so you can go ahead and figure out inefficiencies and cheap play and value in ways that...

Author of Moneyball and Blindside and Liar's Poker.

Author of Moneyball and Blindside and Liar's Poker.

He agreed to speak with CBS Sunday morning to promote my new book, The Art of Winning. Prior to the interview, I clearly communicated with my publicist at Simon & Schuster that any promotional interviews I participated in would agree to focus solely on the contents of the book.

I clearly communicated with my publicist at Simon & Schuster that any promotional interviews I participated in would agree to focus solely on the contents of the book. Unfortunately, that expectation was not honored during the interview.

from moneyball like the dad's just like listen son you're the greatest

The way Moneyball is a book about baseball.

So I had a really interesting conversation once with the author, Michael Lewis, um, of Moneyball and the Blind Side and the Big Short.

Michael Lewis has written two of the most famous books ever written about sports right? He wrote Moneyball which is the book that we're going to be talking about which we'll get to in a second.

His other bestknown work is probably Moneyball, which is about a baseball team manager who uses what's called Sabermetrics, which, without getting into it, is basically being Nate Silver, but also actually running a sports team, right?

Moneyball is very much a part of the - The Boyfriend Criterion Collection.

It's about analytics and sports.

I'm like how on earth are they gonna make a movie and they made a fantastic film out of something I never thought could be made into a movie.

His books, The Fifth Risk, Flash Boys, The Big Short, read it, loved it, Moneyball, The Blind Side.

Why didn't you say "Moneyball?"

I haven't seen "Moneyball."

Okay, do yourself a huge favour and watch "Moneyball."

I don't know if you've ever read Michael Lewis's famous book Moneyball about the analytics nerds who took over baseball.

You mentioned Moneyball earlier. It really is Moneyball. Yeah, it is 100%.

I don't know if you've ever read Michael Lewis's famous book Moneyball about the analytics nerds who took over baseball.

You mentioned Moneyball earlier. It really is Moneyball. Yeah, it is 100%.

As a fan of Moneyball, as a fan of The Big Short, Liar's Poker. I thought these were great, great books.

It's also worth noting that Moneyball, the book, is 0-2?

It started with Moneyball.

Moneyball, that's a good example that they have talked about sometimes where it's like every once in a while, you just wanna see a movie star, a big movie star.

Bull Durham, Field of Dreams, The Natural, League of Their Own, you know, Moneyball, a couple others just missing the cut.

I love racing movies... Moneyball. Cars doing cool shit.

Moneyball was a very cool movie that I like a lot that we've done on the rewatchables.